Food Fat Rules OK

I'v seen secondary kids given dinner money and spend it all on sweets on the way to school.
I used to spend my lunch money on mars bars but at least I got decent diet at home.

DH likes Greggs' steak bakes. I like Greggs' coffee (and a yum-yum with it, occasionally). I used to spend my bus fare on sweets sometimes and then walk home the three miles.

Bags I have nothing against Greggs or their pies, although I have never tried one, I am just a bit shocked when I see a mother pushing a buggy with one hand while stuffing a pie into her face with the other and one or two toddlers in the buggy doing the same thing.

Why?

If you've nothing against Greggs or their pies.

Would you mind if they were eating something widely regarded as 'healthy'?

Such as apples, or bananas?

Bet you wouldn't.

Challenging prejudices

I don't think in-between meals snacks are a very good idea, especially ones as substantial as meat pies – and yes, as a general rule, here they are eaten as in-between meals snacks. They are shovelled into the mouth because they are quite difficult to eat with the hands and it is a fairly revolting process to witness.

I think small children do need more than 3 meals a day, but I agree with absent that meat pies are not appropriate.
Shop-bought meat pies in particular are likely to have a very high fat content, and whilst I'm firmly in the butter-doesn't- do-you-any harm-and-low-fat-diets-are-the-work-of-the-devil camp, I would not trust Greggs to use the sort of fat in their pastry that I would use myself.
I wouldn't worry about DGD having a meat pie on occasions, provided she was sitting at the table and eating it with a knife and fork, but not as her mid-morning snack, walking along the street or being wheeled in her pushchair.
Bags When I was working I would sometimes ask parents to fill in a diet sheet, or ask them how much fizzy drink their child consumed. I was often told at least one large bottle a day. Some children drink nothing else.

Bags, you seem to have morphed into jingl, dividing your posts up into lots of short ones. Is this really necessary?

When we were kids all it was permitted to eat in the street was a bag of chips on the way home from Guides on a Friday night. But that, of course, was in the dark ages 60 years ago before the existence of Greggs.

Anno Greggs is slightly older than 60 and has an illlustrious history:
From Wikipedia
Greggs was founded by John Gregg as a Tyneside bakery in 1939. It opened its first shop in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951.
When John died in 1964, the bakery was taken over by his son, Ian, assisted by Ian's brother, Colin. Major expansion began soon after, including the acquisitions of other bakeries such as Glasgow based Rutherglen in 1972, Leeds based Thurstons in 1974, Broomfields the Bakers, London, Bowketts the Bakers Kent, Tooks the Bakers (East Anglia) and Manchester based Price's in 1976.
In 1994, the company acquired the Bakers Oven chain of bakers' shops from Allied Bakeries.

I suppose all those years of not being allowed to eat in the street when in school uniform or when with my mother have me fossilised in my ways but I do dislike the eating on the move thing that seems more or less ubiquitous these days. Similarly, when I was younger and a smoker, smoking in the street was considered discourteous. As an ex-smoker and in sympathy with all the non-smokers who have never smoked, I wish it were still frowned on. Sorry – madly off the point.

If you consume less calories , you WILL lose weight .

Thanks for the correction Jane. There were no bakery chains in our small town at that time, and just the two chip shops. I was never aware of Greggs until I came to live in England.

The problem is that frequently when fat is taken out it is replaced with sugar. DH is mildly diabetic and likes yoghourt. I have combed the supermarket shelves and every single yoghourt on sale is low fat and about 20% sugar.

Why can they not market yoghourt with a normal milk fat levelwith fruit but no added sugar?

Sorry, didn't mean to sound as though I was correcting you Anno, just adding possibly useless information
I hadn't heard of Greggs' either till I came to the NE.
I think it's interesting howthe firm has grown, buying up other bakeries and expanding that way. Apparently they ventured into Europe at one point but then thought better of it.
Presumably the whole thing is profitable for them, but I still think small is beautiful and am grateful for the small bakery at our local shops where everything is made on the premises.